From b5eb0589937eae2d58fca17fa45ed44152e772ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:23:23 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] net: deprecate print_mac

We've had %pM for long enough now, time to deprecate
print_mac() and remove the __maybe_unused attribute
from DECLARE_MAC_BUF so that variables declared with
that can be found and removed. Otherwise people are
putting in new users of print_mac().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
 include/linux/if_ether.h | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/if_ether.h b/include/linux/if_ether.h
index 70fdba2bbf71..580b6004d00e 100644
--- a/include/linux/if_ether.h
+++ b/include/linux/if_ether.h
@@ -139,10 +139,10 @@ extern ssize_t sysfs_format_mac(char *buf, const unsigned char *addr, int len);
 /*
  *	Display a 6 byte device address (MAC) in a readable format.
  */
-extern char *print_mac(char *buf, const unsigned char *addr);
+extern char *print_mac(char *buf, const unsigned char *addr) __deprecated;
 #define MAC_FMT "%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x"
 #define MAC_BUF_SIZE	18
-#define DECLARE_MAC_BUF(var) char var[MAC_BUF_SIZE] __maybe_unused
+#define DECLARE_MAC_BUF(var) char var[MAC_BUF_SIZE]
 
 #endif
 
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